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Embedding videos and other content

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Embed media into Blackboard to enrich your course content and make it more dynamic and engaging.

Tagged Blackboard, Media, Video

Oct·04

Sourcing and adding images

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Adding images to your Blackboard course is quite straightforward. But there are a couple of things you need to think about first.

Tagged Blackboard, Creative Commons, Images, Media

Oct·03

Tracking students’ progress

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Blackboard provides two simple ways to track how well your students are doing in your course.

Tagged Blackboard, Performance Dashboard, User progress

Sep·30

Making links to course activities

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Linking to activities you have created in various places within your course is easier than you might think.

Tagged Blackboard, Course activities, Links

Sep·29

Conditional release of content

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Blackboard provides a straightforward way if you wish to give selective access to your students.

Tagged Adaptive release, Blackboard

Sep·28

Staff-only content

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Blackboard allows you to hide content (a whole content area or individual items on pages) if you wish to make them visible to your colleagues only.

Tagged Blackboard, Hidden items, Staff

Sep·27

Linking between pages with course links

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Students find course navigation problematic especially when it affects the time they spend on locating information. Course links are one possible way to improve the navigation in your course.

Tagged Blackboard, Course links, Navigation

Sep·26

Previewing as a student

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When uploading content to your course or creating assignments and activities, it is worth taking into consideration how it will look when your students access it. Blackboard provides two ways of seeing your course as a student.

Blackboard Help provides more detailed information on how Student Preview works.

Tagged Blackboard, Student preview, Test student

Sep·24

Naming content effectively

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Using meaningful terminology in your course allows your students to find what they are looking for quickly. In the video below you will find some useful tips on how to name your course content effectively.

Tagged Blackboard, Organisation, Terminology

Sep·23

Decluttering your course

Posted by Harry Kalantzis

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Keeping your course free of clutter is important for making clear to your students what content they should focus on. Blackboard provides a number of ways for removing and hiding unnecessary items from your course.

Tagged Blackboard, Hidden items

Sep·22

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